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Kimchi

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  1. Flashback too two years ago when I first built my pc. I had little to no clue as to what the hell I was doing; I mostly just hopped in some teamspeaks and was like "Hey look at this pcpartpicker link". After ordering all my parts came the time to build it finally. 

     

    Everything goes fine. Mother board goes where it should, psu didn't explode, graphics card is in, cpu fits snug etc. Now I didn't have any sort of idea about how each part works. I figured anything short of a GTX Titan would be only kind of runnable. Now up in till then, the most graphically intensive game I could run was portal 2 on low graphics and even then only like 30fps and the laptop would still get unbearably hot. I remember thinking "Man lets see this 40fps in minecraft xDD :33" (Literally what I said in skype). I start it up and boom 140 fps. I was in shock and awe. Mind you, I have an R9 280, fairly powerful. Now at the time I didn't know this, I figured considering the price it would be basically shit so I wasn't surprised when I only got 20fps in the loading screen of Thief (Don't judge me it came free with some AMD thing). I figured that I couldn't run anything AAA or too intense. After about a month or two the topic of fps came up in teamspeak. (Mind you still in my minecraft days) A tech savvy friend of mine heard about my fps "issues" and got me to check my graphics card. I didn't have the 8pin all the way in. 

     

    Mind. Fucking. Blown. So many fpses. 500 in minecraft? 120 in thief? Skyrim sets itself to Ultra? Life had only just begun. It only took me another 2 months to learn how to set up my SSD.

     

    Tl;dr: Graphics card wasn't plugged in. (And I'm still an idiot)

     

    I now realize that this is probably way too much text but I'm already too involved

  2. I have a powercolor radeon r9 290x graphics card in the reference design. I wanted to upgrade the cooler on it but thought that that would be too expensive. So then I thought I should sell it and get a gtx 980 instead. But then I realized that a gtx 970 sli configuration would be even better and not so much more expensive. but I could to do that I also realized that I had to exchange the motherboard. I can first buy the second gtx 970 maybe in half a year.

    But actually the r9 290x outperforms the gtx 970 by just a little bit.

    Now I am not sure what to do. I do not want to stay with th 290x stock. It gets too hot and (too loud).

    What would you guys recommend?

    Thanks in advance.

    If you already have a great card like the 290x it's really not worth busting your balls for a card that barely outperforms it.


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    CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($329.98 @ SuperBiiz) 

    CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U12S 55.0 CFM CPU Cooler  ($66.99 @ Amazon) 

    Motherboard: MSI Z97-G55 SLI ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($117.98 @ SuperBiiz) 


    Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($77.30 @ Amazon) 


    Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card  ($349.99 @ NCIX US) 

    Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case  ($44.99 @ Amazon) 


    Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer  ($16.98 @ OutletPC) 

    Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit)  ($89.98 @ OutletPC) 

    Monitor: BenQ RL2455HM 60Hz 24.0" Monitor  ($189.99 @ NCIX US) 




    Other: Redragon Karura K502 USB Gaming Keyboard, 7 Switchable Backlight Colors, 104+ Keys ($26.00)

    Other: Redragon M601 CENTROPHORUS-2000 DPI Gaming Mouse for PC, 6 Buttons, Weight Tuning Set,Omron Micro Switches ($14.00)

    Other: Audio-Technica M50S ($125.00)

    Total: $1802.64

    Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

    Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-10-30 09:04 EDT-0400

     

    Slight changes, went with a higher end cooler that will do you well at this budget.

    Changed the psu

    Z97 mobo for overclocking

  4. What are some good uses or excuses you have for using bad/old tech? Besides it being cheap of course. I'm looking for creative answers :P

     

    At my high school we all use chrome books, and I actually love the crappy glossy TN panel in it, just for the fact that I'm not gaming, editing, etc. so I dont need a high quality screen for typing papers and doing research (and poking around of the forum ;) ) Because of this though, I can turn the brightness way down and you cant see a thing on the screen looking from an angle. Only looking straight at it, cause otherwise the color is distorted and the lights reflect off the screen too much :P So I can mess around on this thing all day and nobody knows :D

    Running legacy stuff? I dunno. Ps/2 format keyboards can prevent nkey rollover but that's all i can think of 

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